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Poverty Is A Big Barrier If You Are At The Bottom Layer Of Society, Don't Know Where The Next Meal Is Coming From. It Is Not A Big Barrier Of Taking The Rich With The Poor In A Big Society To Provide Schooling For All.

A Society Can Be Pareto Optimal And Still Perfectly Disgusting.

Progress Is More Plausibly Judged By The Reduction Of Deprivation Than By The Further Enrichment Of The Opulent

80 Percent Of The Export Of Armament In The World Comes From The G8 Countries. [the] United States Alone Exports About 50 Percent Of The World's Armament, [for] Which, Of Course, There Has To Be Buyers, And The Buyers Are Very Terribly Keen, Very Often Military Dictator[s] Or Sometimes Not Military Dictator[s] But For Military Purposes. But The Sellers Are Also Promoting This Trade. And Two Thirds Of The Arm Exports Go To Developing Countries. I'm In Favor Of Putting A Control On It, A Ban On It.

There May Be Countries [where] There's No Gender Inequality In Schooling, Even In Higher Education, But [where There Is] Gender Inequality In High Business. Japan Is A Very Good Example Of That. You Might Find Cases In The United States Where At One Level Women's Equality Has Progressed Tremendously. You Don't Have The Kind Of Problem Of Higher Women's Mortality As You See In South Asia, North Africa, And East Asia, China, Too, And Yet For American Women There Are Some Fields In Which Equality Hasn't Yet Come.